Just last month, the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) published 6 monthly safety incident reporting figures for NHS Trusts for April to September 2008. You can find the report for your trust here.
In these reports, the ‘flagship’ Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, which everybody in the NHS clinical governance system has been trying so hard [...]

UK Sands (the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death charity) is currently running a campaign called “Why 17?”. The idea is to raise awareness of the average 17 stillbirths and neonatal deaths that occur every day in the UK. They are calling for

recognition that stillbirth and neonatal death is a national problem and not [...]

This story appeared on the front page of the Guardian today.  It concerns Professor Cathy Warwick, the new general secretary of the Royal College of Midwives.  She says about the money supplied to ensure the delivery of the Maternity Matters strategy,
“It looks to us like in many parts of the country the money has gone to [...]

Yet more pressure on NHS Maternity Units today.
This time in Milton Keynes, where the local Coroner reported the Trust involved to the Department of Health, asking for an investigation into why a senior midwife’s views had been disregarded. Apparently, a registrar, after discussion with a consultant on the phone, had ignored the [...]

At the end of October 2008, the Commons Health Select Committee was informed that between 90 and 95 % of preventable deaths in the NHS go unreported.
Howard Stoate, a practising GP and Labour MP for Dartford, said the National Patient Safety Agency’s own estimates suggest there are 72,000 preventable deaths in the NHS each year. [...]

When things get really bad at a hospital, sometimes the staff just can’t cope anymore.
Things at Birmingham Children’s Hospital were under such stress by early November 2008, that the hospital’s own paediatric consultants went over the heads of the hospital’s management and called in the Healthcare Commission to draw attention to their own poor health [...]

The Guardian reported yesterday that Hospitals face NHS health checks:
“NHS hit squads will swoop on hospitals where unusually high rates of death, infection and botched operations appear to be harming or killing patients.
As the first healthcare system in the world to operate such a system, investigators from the Healthcare Commission, the NHS watchdog for England, [...]